Christmas House Tour

Welcome to the Christmas Party Tour of Homes!

Krista at The Happy Housie has been so generous to invite me to participate in this wonderful Home Tour for the Holidays! I'm so happy to have you come over to my house! {If you are new here, that is actually the root of why I named my blog COMMONA MY HOUSE...}! 

Come on in and stay a while and don't forget to visit the other 5 blogs that are hosting tours this evening! Their links are at the bottom of my tour.
With 7 bloggers hosting tours tonight and every night for the rest of this week, you're sure to find inspiration in your style of decorating and tons of ideas!

 First off, this is what it looks like in UT today.

It's a Winter Wonderland!!

We moved here from Tulsa, OK over this past Summer.

I have a huge to-do/project list for this house...but in the past few months my focus has been on getting our 4 kids adjusted to new schools, etc. So I'm really excited to hit those projects hard in 2014.

Look for lighting, subway tile, window treatments and shutters, painting projects and MORE in the near future.

For now, this is our house....one that feels more like HOME now that our special Christmas decorations and keepsakes are up!

As you can see, it's a wide open space and that has it's own decorating challenges. But for now, I'm enjoying cozying it up for the cold weather months.

 Some tree details...Almost each one of my ornaments has a story behind it...from a place we've lived, a friendship behind it...or represents something special to our family.

We always put the Christmas cards we receive in a bowl and then each night we pull out a card and include that family in our prayers.. it's a special way to remember all of our family and friends and to teach the kids to think of others over the holidays and throughout the year!

I love throwing odds and ends in bowls...ornaments, ribbons, a sprig of pine and a pine cone...maybe a bell. Who needs anything more?

I love layering special objects on my mantle. 

I wish you could smell this yummy candle. The scent is pine and vanilla- it's called MISTLETOE.

I don't usually like fakety fake pine scents but this is dreamy.

I'm a sucker for pinecones. And pheasant feathers. And deer.

And glittery deer!

Any mirror can serve as a backdrop for a wreath! Just use a suction cup hook!

I HATE niches and cubbies. I grew up in New England and I prefer traditional homes...without niches. But I like how the tree, demijon, my subway art and my stack of books works up there. It's pretty high up...and I can't wait to change the sconce...weird placement and weird uplight.

{that's my dog...she loves it under the Christmas Tree}.

Come back over on Friday while I conclude the Blue Christmas Blog Hop with a tour 

of my kid LOFT SPACE and Kid Tree!!!

Hop over to check out the other amazing ladies that are hosting tonight!!
It's like a progressive dinner ...without the dinner!

1) Krista from The Happy Housie 2) Laura from The Turquoise Home

3) Amy from Commona My House 4) Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog

5) April from House by Hoff 6) Shayna from The Wood Grain Cottage

Hope you liked coming over!

and make sure to hop over to see more tours each night this week!

Wednesday, December 4th

1) Jenna from Rain on a Tin Roof 2) Jen from Migonis Home

3) Rachel from Maison de Pax 4) Jamie from So Much Better With Age

5) Molly from The Poor Sophisticate 6)Tanya from Twelve O Eight

Thursday, December 5th

1) Amy from The Blissful Bee 2) Heather from The Southern State of Mind

3) Candace of Vintage News Junkie 4) Lauren from The Thinking Closet

5) Amber from Averie Lane 6) Sarah from Life on Virginia Street

Friday, December 6th

1) Chelsea from Making Home Base 2) Aniko from Place of My Taste

3) Christy from Confessions of a Serial Do-It-Yourselfer 4) Corey from Tiny Sidekick

5) Patricia from Little Cottage on the Pond 6) Emily from Two Purple Couches